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01-12-2016 | Letter
Benefit of prokinetics during enteral nutrition: still searching for a piece of evidence
Author:
Alain Dive
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 1/2016
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Excerpt
I read with interest the article by Lewis et al. [
1] who presents a review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) examining the benefit and harms of prokinetics in patients receiving enteral nutrition. They used the Grading of recommendation, assessment, development, and evaluation (GRADE) method to assess the quality of evidence for various clinical outcomes including feeding tolerance, success of postpyloric placement tubes, pneumonia, mortality, vomiting, and diarrhoea. …